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Originally Posted by l2ridehd
In February of this year I went out and hiked to the bottom and back up the Grand Canyon. Hiked back out in a blizzard with two feet of snow. Also visited Albuquerque and Santa Fe and Durango while I was out there. Nice places and lots of interesting things to see and do.
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Back when I was an Explorer Scout we did it the hard way, went down the Bright Angel Trail from the South Rim (elev 6840') down to Phantom Ranch and up the Kaibab Trail to the North Rim (elev 8240'). It was summer and very hot down deep in the canyon. The worst part of it for me was having to get off the trail to let the tourists on mules get by. We had to get below the trail as the mules would not go by if we were above them. Also, back then those trails were pretty treacherous IMO, in places narrow and/or covered with loose and crumbly soil. They were not always level and in spots pitched strongly into the canyon. This was about 1956. Hopefully they have been vastly improved since then.
BTW I cannot even imagine hiking up one of those trails in a blizzard with two feet of snow! Glad you made it out fine.